American Diana Nyad completed a historic swim from Cuba to Key West on Monday. Here are other things that have come from Cuba:

1) Desi Arnaz: The famed bandleader and Lucy’s husband fled Cuba as a teen and went to high school in Tampa.

2) Cuba’s cigars are the most revered in the world and are illegal in the U.S.

3) Ernest Hemingway wrote several books in Cuba, including “The Old Man and the Sea.”

4) Che Guevara was from Argentina but his role in the Cuban revolution made him the darling of today’s T-shirt-clad hipsters and rebels.

5) The Cuban is the Cohiba of the sandwich world.

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